Banerji, Surendranath : (1848-1925) Sir S.N. Bannerjea educated at Doreton College, Calcutta: B.A. 1868: ICS entrance exam (1869) & went up to Univ. College, London: joined ICS in 1871 as Asst. Magistrate, Sylhet; rejected from the Service 1874: Prof. English Literature in Metropolitan Institution & founder Indian Association 1876: joined Free Church Institution & Duff College 1881: founded Ripon College 1882: proprietor & editor the weekly Bengalee 1878-25: Member, Bengal Legislative Council 1893-1901: represented Calcutta Corporation in Bengal Legislative Council 1893: President, INC Poona 1895 & Ahmedabad 1902: Fellow, Calcutta University 1904: Member, Viceroy’s Imperial Legislative Council 1913: knighted 1921. [CEB] After dismissal from ICS on account of what was considered an irregular manner of trying a case, Surendranath tried to be enrolled as a barrister in England but was refused as he was dismissed from ICS. On his return to India in 1875, he became a professor at the Metropolitan Institution (now Vidyāsāgara College); the Ripon College he founded & became its principal was renamed Surendranath College. He played a prominent part in founding the Indian Association (q.v.) in 1876, & also led the opposition to the Vernacular Press Act of 1878; under the auspices of his Indian Association, the Indian National Conference first met in Calcutta from 28 to 30 December; Surendranath took a prominent part in supporting the Ilbert Bill. After the founding of the Indian National Congress he helped merge All-India National Conference into it. [SB] Convinced by his study of the national movements in Europe that INC must copy the stirring activity recorded in the glorious annals of English constitutional history & take up constitutional agitation as that alone will secure for us those rights & privileges which in less favoured countries are obtained by sterner means, he declared: We rely on the liberty-loving instincts of the greatest representative assembly in the world, the palladium of English Liberty, the sanctuary of the free & brave, the British House of Commons. In 1887, adopting Bannerjea’s idea of setting up a committee of English “friends” to lobby in England, the INC set up a group under ex-Civilians Hume, Wedderburn, Cotton, & Naoroji on an annual budget of Rs.45,000. But within a decade this ineffective & expensive committee had to be dropped. This blind faith in the English model was not perturbed even when Dufferin publicly ridiculed it on 30 November 1888 thus: Some intelligent, loyal, patriotic & well-meaning men are desirous of taking… a big jump into the unknown… by the application to India of democratic methods of government, & the adoption of parliamentary system, which England herself had only reached by slow degrees & through the discipline of many centuries of preparation… Well, gentlemen, I am afraid that the people of England will not readily be brought to the acceptance of this programme. “There is no doubt,” writes Sitāramayyā, “that the progress of the Congress from 1885 to 1905 was an even march based on a firm faith in constitutional agitation in the unfailing regard for justice attributed to the English. [SA; APK; PS] When Lord Curzon decided to carry out the partition of Bengal [first announced in 1903, carried out in October 1905], Aurobindo-babu wrote: “A golden opportunity has come. Lay special stress on the Anti-Partition movement. Many workers will come from this movement.” He sent us a little pamphlet he had written entitled No Compromise. No press would print it. With no other course open, we bought types, sticks, lead, case, etc. And got the matter composed at our house by a young Marathi man named P.B. Kulkarni. Needless to say this Kulkarni used to stay with us. One night we got a press to print about a thousand copies of the pamphlet. It was distributed among all the newspaper editors & among the respectable educated classes. Barin & I took a copy to the venerable Surendranath Banerjee. At first he asked us to leave the pamphlet & go, but as we stood there obstinately, he took it up to glance at it – & could not put it down. He read the entire thing with great concentration, utterly stunned. He asked who the author was. “No Indian, why, not even a Bengali, could write such English, & present the facts so cogently”, but when he was told that Aurobindo-babu was the author, he said: “Yes, he is the only person who could write in this way.” [ACB] Surendranath strongly opposed the Partition of Bengal effected in 1905 & led such a strong & popular agitation against it that he came to be recognised as the undisputed leader of Bengal, indeed “as the uncrowned king” of Bengal, for this partition was strongly resented by the people of Bengal, especially the Hindus, & they resorted to Swadeshi or use of indigenous manufactures & boycott of British goods. The Partition was modified in 1911 & was a great triumph for Surendranath. [SB] A comment of Sri Aurobindo in 1926: “Some people have a knack of using high-sounding words; once I listened to Surendra Nath for half-an-hour & I found no thought, it was all words. But he carried the audience, because what people require is some kind of vital emotion – they do not require thought. They get tired of listening of thoughts. [ABP] Opposition had already begun to grow amongst a section of Indians who thought that the constitutional agitation INC had so long been carrying on had proved a failure... [That section] known as the Extremists, was not afraid of resorting to violent methods, even if this led to a revolution. The attempt that the British Govt. made to suppress by force the anti-Partition agitation led by Surendranath, had driven discontent underground & terrorism raised its head in Bengal under the leadership of Aravinda Ghose. But Surendranath who had been reared upon the English literature of the 18th century…would have nothing to do with revolution or revolutionary methods & could not think of a separation between India & England. [SB] On 5 January 1939, Sri Aurobindo said, “My answer to Surendranath when he invited our party to unite with his group in order to jointly fight the dominant right wing of the Moderates at the U.P. Convention (in 1909), was ‘No’. For it would have necessitated our being appointed as delegates by his party & ac¬cepting the constitution imposed at Surat. I spoke at most twenty or thirty words & the whole thing failed…. At the Hooghly Provincial Conference we Nationalists had the majority…[but] in order to keep unity I asked the Nationalists not to oppose the Moderate resolution & leave the hall quietly so that they would not have to vote. The Moderate leaders were very angry that peo¬ple did not any more follow their tried & veteran leaders but so completely obeyed the young leaders. Surendranath could not realise the difference between old, upper middle class leadership due to their influence & money & the new leadership of those who stood for a principle & commanded a following. Surendranath had a personal magnetism & he was sweet-spo¬ken; he could get round anybody. His idea was to become the un¬disputed leader of Bengal by using the Nationalists for the sword & the Moderates for the public face. In private he would go up to & accept the revolutionary movement. He even wanted to set up a provincial board of control of the revolutionaries! Barin once took a bomb to him & he was full of enthusiasm. He even had a letter from Surendranath, when he was arrested at Manicktolla Garden. But in the court they hushed up the matter as soon as Norton pronounced S. N. Banerji. [ABP] “There is also no doubt that since the beginning of 1907 the Moderates practically left the Extremists in the lurch & veered round to the Govt. The following extract from Minto’s letter to Morley dated March 19, 1907, makes it quite clear: ‘...a Deputation of Mahommedans & Hindus...came to see me last Friday.... The Deputation consisted of the Maharaja of Darbhanga, Surendra Nath Banerjee, Mr Chowdry, a member of the Congress, Narendra Nath Sen, Editor of the Indian Mirror, & three Mahommedan gentlemen.....It was simply marvellous...to see the “King of Bengal” sitting on my sofa with his Mahommedan opponents, asking for my assistance to moderate the evil passions of the Bengali, & inveighing against the extravagances of Bepin Chandra Pal.’ [RCM] Gokhale’s letter to Wedderburn, 24 September 1909: “I fear one of our numerous disintegrations has overtaken us again – this time it is the national movement that appears to be going to pieces, throwing us back on Provincialism & one grieves to find that there is no influence available anywhere in the country, capable of staying the process. The organisation evolved by Mr Hume out of the material prepared by a succession of workers in different parts of the country is crumbling to pieces & the effort of the nation’s heart & mind that brought us together in that organization seems to have almost exhausted itself. The split at Surat, followed by the vigour with which the Government came down on the Extremists everywhere, has turned the whole Extremist party into active enemies of the national constitutional movement. And the Moderates placed between the officials & the Extremists have not the necessary public spirit & energy of character to hold together effectively for long, thought they are numerically strong in the country. In addition to the incessant attacks of the extremists, the conduct of the Bengal Moderates is hastening the disintegration of the national movement. Bengal really has no leader on our side. Surendranath B is an orator, but he has no great courage or backbone, & he cannot keep in hand the unruly pack whom he presses to lead. Moreover there is no doubt that the position of the constitutional party has been rendered almost impossible by the Govt.’s refusal to reconsider the partition & the continued incarceration of the deportees. [BRN] Surendranath succeeded after the Surat Congress (1907) in preventing the Extremists from dominating the Congress…. The terrorism that had raised its head in Bengal under the leadership of Aravinda Ghose led to his trial in the famous Alipore Bomb Case. The trial ended in Aravinda’s acquittal, though many of his associates were sentenced to imprisonment for life. But ere long the Congress organisation passed under the control of Mahatma Gandhi with the result that when the Govt. of India Act of 1919 (q.v.) was on the basis of the Montagu-Chelmsford Report, Surendranath accepted it as fulfilling to a large extent the demand that the Congress had made in its earlier days but the Congress itself [all including its president Motilal Nehru & his closes colleague C.R. Das, excepting Tilak, were mesmerised by Gandhi] refused to accept it. Thus a definite breach took place between INC & Surendranath who, along with other older leaders of the Congress formed a new organisation called the Liberal Federation which, however, failed to secure much popular support. Surendranath, however, was nominated to the new Bengal Legislative Council, was knighted in 1921 & became a Minister of the Bengal Govt.; he piloted through the Legislature the Calcutta Municipal Bill of 1923 which undid the mischief of Lord Curzon’s earlier Act on the organisation & established complete popular control over the Calcutta Corporation. Surendranath had no faith in Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement started in 1920. [SB] The breakaway Swarājya party headed by C.R. Das won handsomely the seats in the Bengal Legislative Assembly. Veterans of public life were defeated by unknown men set up by Deshbandhu. Surendranath Bannerjea…defeated by Dr Bidhān Chandra Roy…. The Calcutta Municipal Act of 1923 was one of the major contributions of Sir Surendra Nath Bannerjea to the development of local self-government in India. It widened the franchise & made the Calcutta Corporation a democratic body. Under the Act, the Corporation was to have 85 councillors & five Aldermen. The Act abolished the post of the Chairman & provided instead a Mayor elected by special meetings of the Corporation…. Deshbandhu Das decided to contest the elections to the Corporation in the name of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee. The Congress won most of the seats without contest…. It was the unanimous wish of the entire city that Deshbandhu Das should be the first Mayor of Calcutta & after some initial reluctance he agreed. [HDG] Notwithstanding therefore his important legislative achievement his countrymen ceased to regard him, as before as their accredited leader. He was defeated in the election to the Calcutta Corporation in 1923 & was henceforth practically excluded from public life till his death in 1925…. He therefore did not die in a blaze of glory, but there is no doubt that he had been one of the makers of modern Indian nationalism of which independent India is a product. (Reference: A Nation in Making). [SB] [CEB = C.E. Buckland, Dict. of Indian Biography; SB = S. Bhattacharya, Dict. of Indian History, Calcutta Univ., 1972, pp. 114-16, 130-31; APK =A.P. Kaminsky, The India Office – 1880-1910, 1986; SA = Sri Aurobindo, New Lamps for Old; PS = Pattabhi Sitāramayyā, History of INC (1885-1935), 1935, pp.89-99; ACB =Abinash Chandra Bhattacharya, “Sri Aurobindo”, Mother India, July 2012, pp.528-39; ABP = A.B. Purani, Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, 2007, 615-16; (8) RCM = R.C. Majumdar, History &…, X-II: 543, 481, 484, 557: HDG = Hemendranath Das Gupta, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, Builders of Modern India series, Pub. Div., Govt. of India, 1960, 1969, 1977, pp. 93-103; BRN = B.R. Nanda, G.K. Gokhale – The Indian Moderates & the British Raj, 1979, p.365]
... Bahaism. 169 Baker, Edward, 47 (fn) Bakunin,93 Bande Mataram (mantra and national song), 9, 21,22, 37 ,154,222,223 Bande Mataram (English daily), 17,27,47 Banerjee, Jitendranath, 13 Banerji, Surendranath, 17 Bangladesh, 15(fn) Bankim, see under Charleroi Baptista, Joseph, 148 barbarians. 126 barbarism, 103, 127, 175,239 Barin, see under Ghose Baroda, II, 35 Baroda College , II battle ...
... "Once Surendranath Banerji wanted to annex the Extremist Party and invited us to the U. P. Moderate Conference to fight against Sir Pherozeshah Mehta. But there was a clause that no association that was not of two or three years' standing could send delegates to the Conference. Ours was a new party. So we could not go. But Banerji said, 'We will elect you as delegates.' J. L. Banerji and others... but I just said, 'No.' I spoke at most twenty or thirty words and the whole thing failed. How can you call a man modest," demanded Sri Aurobindo, "when he stands against his own party?" Surendranath Banerji, a Moderate leader, was called the 'uncrowned king of Bengal' at one time, so popular was he. But his popularity rapidly waned with the rise of the Nationalists. He was unequal to the new surging... Commitee Sri Aurobindo was able to defeat the Moderates' resolution welcoming the Reforms and pass his own resolution stigmatizing them as utterly inadequate and unreal and rejecting them. "Surendranath Banerji was very angry with us and threatened that he and his party would break away from the Conference if their resolution was not accepted. I didn't want them to break away at that time, for our ...
... govern themselves and yet remain out of jail is a clear sign that the British Empire is coming to an end. The Statesman has at last come to the rescue anent the moral belabouring of Babu Surendranath Banerji for his Shanti-Sechan indiscretion. The Statesman sees two dangers looming through the dust which has been kicked up over the affair. One is that Page 151 the ignorant peasantry... extraordinary demoralisation of the Anglo-Indian press has indeed been painfully evident throughout the affair; but the Statesman does not see his friend's point of view. To Hare Street Babu Surendranath Banerji is not a moderate and constitutional leader, but a dangerous and fiery red revolutionist charging full tilt at British supremacy in India, with other revolutionists more or less scarlet in colour... that fire-breathing seditious monster of Chinsurah, "Golden Bengal", turns sniffing round, nose to earth, for a fresh trail, and finds it in our own columns. We also, it appears, no less than Babu Surendranath and "Golden Bengal" have declared "open war" against King Edward VII; we wish to get rid of "British control". Beside this the manifesto of "Golden Bengal" fades into insignificance. That Indians ...
... agree." Once Surendranath Banerji wanted to annex the Extremist Party and invited us to the U.P. Moderate Conference to fight against Sir Pherozshah Mehta. But there was a clause that no association that was not of two or three years' standing could send delegates to the Conference. Ours was a new party. So we could not go. But Banerji said, "We will elect you as delegates." J. L. Banerji and others... reforms. The Moderates argued in favour of accepting the reforms. We were against them. We were in the majority in the Subjects Committee, while in the Conference they were in the majority. Surendranath Banerji was very angry with us and threatened that he and his party would break away from the Conference if their resolution was not accepted. I didn't want them to break away at that time, for our... Banerji had personal magnetism, was sweet-spoken and could get round anybody. He also tried to get round me by flattering, patting and caressing. His idea was to use the Extremists as the sword and use the Moderates for the public face. In private he would go as far as revolution. He wanted a provincial board of control of revolution. Barin once took a bomb to him. The name of Surendranath Banerji ...
... 1907 Bande Mataram The Gospel according to Surendranath 22-April-1907 The appearance of Babu Surendranath Banerji as an exponent of the "New Nationalism" is a phenomenon which shows the spread of the new spirit, but, we fear, nothing more. We congratulate Babu Surendranath on his conversion to the New Nationalism, but we are not sure that we can congratulate... nation by exposing pseudo-Nationalism in all its workings. We shall meet the Bengalee 's positions one by one hereafter. Meanwhile we take the liberty of offering one suggestion to Babu Surendranath Banerji. This veteran leader is a declared opportunist, who believes, as he has himself said, in expediency more than in principles. He seeks to lead the nation not by instructing it but by watching... blasted," cried Danton, "but let France be saved." "Let my name, life, possessions all go," cries the true Nationalist, "let all that is dear to me perish, but let my country be free." But Babu Surendranath is not prepared to consider the world well lost for liberty. He wishes to drive bargains with God, to buy liberty from Him in the cheapest market, at the smallest possible price. Until now he was ...
... Englishman credits the Statesman with the instinct to follow Mr. Surendranath Banerji with doglike fidelity. To this the Statesman replies—"Strange as it may appear to the Englishman , we are in the habit of forming our own opinions and of expressing them without any extraneous assistance—even from the Bar Library, or elsewhere. Mr. Banerji has certainly not done us the honour of tendering his help,... "extremists", they will not stand any humbug, says our ancient contemporary; and no one will dare question the truth of his opinion, for he speaks clearly from personal experience. Babu Surendranath Banerji is reported to have advised the youthful students of Bally "to keep themselves within the limits of law and never, in their excitement, run into excesses but always to serve their motherland ...
... Pandits' meeting which deified Babu Surendranath Banerji, and in the undignified effusion of the report which appeared in Babu Surendranath's own paper the Bengalee . A regular " abhishek " ceremony seems to have been performed and the assembled Brahmins paid him regal honours as if he had been the just and truthful Yudhishthira at the Rajasuya sacrifice. If Babu Surendranath wishes to be the king of independent... effusive tearfulness; in the touching language of the Bengalee , "his mighty voice shook and he got choky". But the thing passes a joke. Whatever differences of opinion we may have with Babu Surendranath, we have always recognized him as the leader of Bengal, the one man among us whose name is a spell to sway the hearts of millions. We do not like to see him making himself publicly ridiculous, for ...
... when occasion was favourable and openly exclude it by unconstitutional trickery when secret means would no longer serve. Srijut Surendranath Banerji is the declared editor of this paper and the public connect it and his actions together. We understand that Srijut Surendranath is sincerely anxious for peace and we are ready to take the hand offered to us if it is given in frankness, but he will pardon ...
... to keeping the ring. The leaders may say that they thought the Comilla incident an unwelcome and deplorable outbreak which had happily been closed whether by the "secret" efforts of Babu Surendranath Banerji or by other less miraculous means. That they did think so, is probable and nothing could more damningly convict them of want of insight and even the smallest measure of political wisdom than... not been the first incident of the kind, so also it would not be the last. Before the Conference met the disturbance at Mogra Hat was already in full course; and the details, reported in Babu Surendranath Banerji's own paper, were of the most glaringly unmistakable character. At Comilla there had been an outbreak of anti-national hooliganism coincident with the Nawab's visit; the authorities had practically... genius gifted with the adaptability to suit themselves to the new circumstances, the vision to grasp them and the courage to act. But none of these qualities seems to be possessed either by Babu Surendranath, the one man of genius among the older leaders, or by Mr. Gokhale, the one man of real political ability, much less by the lesser heads. The country has still to seek for leaders who shall be worthy ...
... Opinions Srijut Surendranath Banerji's Return The veteran leader of Moderate Bengal has returned from his oratorical triumphs in the land of our rulers. The ovations of praise and applause which appreciative audiences and news-paper critics of all shades of opinion have heaped upon him, were thoroughly deserved. Never has the great oratorical gift with which Srijut Surendranath is so splendidly... height of a great and sound eloquence strong in matter as in style. With the statesman's part in the speeches we do not wholly agree. Nevertheless it must be accounted as righteousness to Srijut Surendranath that he enforced the Moderate Nationalist view of things,—a very different view from Mr. Gokhale's which is certainly not Nationalism and hardly even strong enough to be called Moderatism,—to its... accepting the reforms were great blunders which might have done infinite harm, but his later utterances, however equivocal on this point, did much to redress the balance. We await with interest Sj. Surendranath's action in this matter. In our view the one policy for us is "No control, no co-operation," and in this we believe we are supported not only by the whole mass of advanced Nationalist opinion but ...
... question of the money subscribed to the Rashtriya Mandali. It appears that the Nationalists are willing to co-operate if Srijut Surendranath Banerji be nominated as President in lieu of Mr. Tilak. The reasons for this proposal and its rejection are not far to seek. Sj. Surendranath is recognised all over India as the acknowledged leader of one of the two great parties in Bengal, a man with a great name... services and self-sacrifice to set against the disqualification of a seat on the Legislative Council. Nor is it difficult to understand why the Moderates of Nagpur have shied at the idea of Srijut Surendranath's Presidentship. The Moderatism of Western India is much more Loyalist than Moderate, unlike that of Bengal, where except in the case of a small minority Moderatism wears loyalty more or less loosely... exaggerated in places like the Central Provinces where before the Nationalist upheaval the pulse of political life beat dull and slow. For a Moderate of the Nagpur Rai Bahadur type to be asked to take Surendranath as a substitute for Tilak is as if they were asked to exchange Satan for Beelzebub; both are to them, as to the Englishman , devils of Extremism, one only less objectionable than the other. ...
... particular Heaven-born's sacred boot soles hallowed the streets of Bombay! Evidently, Sir Frederick is brooding regretfully on the impossibility of adorning Belvedere with the tongues of Babu Surendranath Banerji and Babu Bipin Chandra Pal, red sacrifices to the stability of British rule. That might certainly simplify the task of Government,—or it might not. Page 133 ...
... the grounds expressing his contempt for the Reformist movement and explaining his own line of action in Maharashtra." The Ahmedabad Congress was held in December 1902 under the chairmanship of Surendranath Banerji, who declared: "We plead for the permanence of British rule in India." Sri Aurobindo built up a very close contact with Tilak, for he became — unless he already was ? — a member of a secret... whole of India." It was in 1901 that Sri Aurobindo made his first move by sending Jatin Banerji "as his lieutenant to Bengal with a programme of preparation and action which he thought might occupy a period of 30 years before fruition could become possible." It took about forty-five years. Jatin Banerji (1877-1930) had turned up one day in 1898 at the door of A. Ghose. He wanted to get military... I was never in direct contact with the movement nor with the young men and didn't know them. Only in jail I came in contact with them, especially Nolini, Bejoy, etc. When I came out of jail, Jatin Banerji and others again approached me and I organized the party again." People do not know what an exceptional organizational ability Sri Aurobindo had. Almost single-handedly he brought order out of ...
... Even the Loyalist organs are full of expressions of uneasiness and perturbed wonder at the inaction of the authorities while Moderate organs like the Bengalee and Moderate leaders like Babu Surendranath Banerji have expressed plainly an adverse view of the action and spirit of the Government. There is no doubt considerable resentment against men like Nawab Salimullah for fomenting the disturbances; ...
... secret conclave of high dignitaries in the Maharaja's house, at which there were some strange planetary conjunctions, Sirish Sarvadhicari of the Hindu Patriot sitting cheek by jowl with Srijut Surendranath Banerji to consult on the situation. At this meeting of opposites it was proposed, we believe, to issue a loyal manifesto after the fashion set by the Punjab. But owing to the opposition of the popular ...
... for his country, no one pretending to be a patriot has a right to vent on him either a private spleen or a dislike on public grounds. We have our own differences with Mr. Gokhale and Srijut Surendranath Banerji, but were either of these leaders to become the objects of official persecution, we should consider ourselves eternally disgraced if we remembered Page 407 anything but the one fact ...
... Bengalee publishes an apologetic explanation of the Kamboliatola ceremony on which we passed a few strictures, more in sorrow than in anger, the other day. The defence seems to be that Babu Surendranath Banerji was bediademed neither with a crown of gems nor a crown of thorns, but only a harmless chaplet of flowers. Moreover, the ceremony was not in the nature of an abhishek or coronation but a ...
... transfiguration. There is a delightful flexibility about this word "extremist". It is imbued with a thoroughly progressive spirit and never stands still. Once quite within the memory of man, Babu Surendranath Banerji was an "extremist" but his scarlet coat is growing quite a dull and faded pink in these latter times. Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji was once denounced as a blatant extremist—that was the day before yesterday ...
... interested in seeing the creed preserved. For all these reasons let the creed be preserved. We Page 927 wonder whether these cogent reasons will confirm the wavering allegiance of Srijut Surendranath Banerji and his followers and keep them in the Mehtaist fold! They ought at least to show unprejudiced people all over the country who were really desirous of the split and with what motives it was ...
... growing worse and worse until he has finally renounced his liberal principles and become a champion of bureaucracy. The article closes with a curious attack which seems to be directed at Srijut Surendranath Banerji. "Violent speeches, inflammatory writings, a prosecution, a brilliantly unsuccessful Page 421 defence, paragraphs in all the newspapers, questions by ill-informed nobodies in the... is taken from life; and to whom can it be applied but Srijut Surendranath? For, obviously, no leader of the new school is meant, since no leader of the new school would aspire to a seat in Parliament. Yet after this ill-natured attack the Statesman yesterday had again the face to figure as the patron and counsellor of Srijut Surendranath and advise him to sacrifice his feelings of personal friendship... the Statesman . A more complete unmasking could not be imagined. The Statesman not only attacks the new school,—that would be nothing new—but turns round and rends his old associates, Srijut Surendranath, the British Committee, the friends of India in Parliament, renounces all liberal ideas and principles, throws off every disguise and stands forth naked and unashamed. We recommend this example ...
... Oct.1906 Bande Mataram A Disingenuous Defence 14-September-1906 The strictures which the extraordinary announcement made at Bhagalpur by Babu Surendranath Banerji has aroused, have compelled the Bengalee to offer a sort of apology or explanation for the unconstitutional action of the leaders. It was distinctly stated at Bhagalpur that Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji ...
... Book Two Book Two Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 28.May-22.Dec.1907 Bande Mataram To Organise 10-August-1907 Srijut Surendranath Banerji in his remarkable speech in College Square, the other day, observed that what the country now needed was not oratory but statesmanship, for the only effective answer to bureaucratic repression... who from party feelings or personal dislike or jealousy try to exclude powerful forces from the common national work cannot claim the name of statesman. It is an encouraging sign of the times that Surendranath is coming more and more into sympathy with thorough-going Nationalism, but will he have the courage and magnanimity to hold out his hand to the new men, and if he does will he be able to retain ...
... wanted. Such a policy will be absolutely suicidal. These outbursts can only come once or twice in a century; they cannot be evoked and ruled at the will of any leader, be he Surendranath Banerji or even a greater than Surendranath. Nor would such frequent outbursts benefit the country, but would rather, like frequent occasions of fever, weaken the nation and render it finally listless and strengthless ...
... Moderate party. 'You must bring down the Moderates by any means fair or foul...." Do you know what Sri Aurobindo replied? "No, I shall never agree to that. Do you have any idea what great work Surendranath Banerji and his Moderate Party have done in Bengal politics? We are standing on their shoulders and because of that we appear tall." He added calmly, "Besides this, whatever be anybody's work, I shall... to them by the wily British. India was more or less manageable. Even in Bengal, which continued to give the rulers a headache, the government could quite handle a Moderate leader like Surendra Nath Banerji, although he too was rather unreliable. Always seeking popularity, he swam with the fish. He hid the truth and called it 'diplomacy'! But the root cause of the Indian government's headache was ...
... itself in this amazing excision. The mutilated copy of last year's circular which is disgraced by this act of inexplicable backsliding and timidity, comes out under the signatures of Sjts. Surendranath Banerji, Motilal Ghose and Rai Jotindranath Chaudhuri. We are certainly astonished to find Moti Babu's name under such a document and we can only assume that it was inserted without getting his consent... to the national movement in its most vital features. We are not aware that any organ of the popular party, Moderate or Nationalist, has opposed the sense of the country as formulated in Sj. Surendranath Banerji's resolution at Hughly. Page 284 ...
... championing of advanced political principles is a trick of the trade, etc. etc. And therefore the Bengalee appeals to them to be friendly, toe the line and follow faithfully in the wake of Babu Surendranath Banerji. Does our contemporary really think that this is the sort of appeal which is likely to heal the breach? The praise and approval of the Anglo-Indian papers, says the Bengalee wisely ...
... ally of England and Dictator of Bengal! It is very natural for the Comilla people to enquire whether this remarkable pronouncement is Babu Bhupendranath's own particular balloon, or Babu Surendranath Banerji also is tempting the airy heights in his company. The mysteries of the secret conclave which attempts to direct the destinies of the national movement are carefully veiled from profane eyes ...
... broken in the act. The Statesman very naturally resents the implied charge of breach of faith. We do not know what private hopes the Secretary of State may have held out to Mr. Gokhale or Sj. Surendranath Banerji, but, judging from Lord Morley's public utterances, we do not think the charge of a breach of faith can be for a moment sustained. He has never pretended that his reform was the granting of... A. Chaudhuri. A deputation was appointed by the Convention to proceed to lay the question of Partition once more before Lord Morley; and of whom, think you, the deputation is to consist? Sj. Surendranath Banerji and Sj. Bhupendranath Bose. Not a single Moderate deputy is forthcoming from the whole of India to support Bengal even to this extent in its bitter and arduous struggle. Yet men are not ashamed... creditable feelings were confined. To this body calling itself the Indian National Congress how many delegates did the Indian nations end? The magnificent total of three hundred. From Bengal Sjs. Surendranath, Bhupendranath and A. Chaudhuri with less than half-a-dozen followers enriched Lahore with their presence; Madras could muster only twelve; the Central Provinces sent so Page 377 few ...
... of Boycott, Swadeshi and Swaraj should be pursued with tenfold vigour, that Srijut Bipin Chandra Pal should be asked to return to Madras and complete his programme with additions and Srijut Surendranath Banerji should proceed at once to the North for the same purpose and should take in Gujarat and the Central Provinces in his return journey, and that meanwhile every nerve should be strained to promote... our chosen weapon and this it is sought to strike out of our hands. We must, therefore, either oppose an organised passive resistance to this Ordinance, a resistance in which leaders like Srijut Surendranath must court imprisonment and deportation, or we must find other methods. It was light on this question that we expected from Sunday's meeting, but it has left us only darkness visible. It seems to ...
... life !They set the stage for the second clash between the two parties which resulted in an open rupture. The District Congress Conference at Midnapore was held from December 7 to 9,1907. Surendranath Banerji led the Moderate Party from Calcutta. Sri Aurobindo , now the recognized leader of Nationalism in Bengal, led his party at the Midnapore Conference. This was the first time that he was acting... Gyanendranath Bose, elder brother of Satyen. There he received a note from S. N. Banerji. "My dear Aurobindo Babu, "I am here. Will you kindly if convenient come over with Sham Sunder Babu and Lalit Babu. Kristo Babu is also coming here. Yours sincerely, Surendra Nath Banerjea." Surendranath tried his best to convince Sri Aurobindo that the Moderate policy would not... confined to petition, prayer and protest to the alien Authority which held India under subjection.... On the November evening referred to above, there were gathered Bipin Chandra Pal, Chittaranjan Das, Surendranath Halder, Page 391 and Sarat Chandra Sen — all familiar faces; the only exception was a retiring figure sitting quietly in a chair, whose name I later came to know as Aurobindo Ghose ...
... employees of Mr. Harkissen Lal's various commercial ventures. This independent majority voted plump for Mr. Harkissen Lal's candidate, Sir Pherozshah, but the rest were strong and firm for Sj. Surendranath Banerji. This revolt in the camp led to much anxiety and confusion and great efforts were made to bring back the insurgents to their allegiance, but in vain. If this account is correct, no criticism... Presidentship unless it were offered unanimously? A strenuous attempt was made Page 250 to save the face of the Dictator by representing in the Lahore cables that the nomination of Sj. Surendranath by the Bengal Convention Committee was only a suggestion in a private letter. But even then, what of Burma? What of this remarkable division in the toy committee itself at Lahore? We imagine that ...
... Kishore of Gauripur are notoriety-hunters who have chosen to pay heavily in cash and land for the titles of Raja and Maharaja. Babu Shishir Kumar Ghose is a humbug who poses as an Avatar; Babu Surendranath Banerji is a humbug who poses as a Martyr; there is a third patriotic humbug somewhere who poses as a Hero,—we cannot fix this gentleman at present. The country does not want these gentlemen at all; ...
... himself as President, and how utterly impossible it will be even to suggest, either in Subjects Committee or in full meeting, any idea which will not be wholly palatable to the autocrat. Sj. Surendranath Banerji at Hughly advanced the strangely reactionary conception of the President of a Congress or Conference as by right not less absolute than the Czar of all the Russias, bound by no law and no principle... nal procedure were properly considered. All that the threat can mean is that, even of those who would otherwise have gone, most will not attend. This is, after all, a feeble menace. Neither Sj. Surendranath nor Sj. Bhupendranath nor the Chaudhuri brothers are likely to forego attendance, and, for all practical purposes, these gentlemen are the Moderate party in Bengal. If the Bengal leaders do go to ...
... will, of course, be dismissed at once. Finally the College Professors, men like Srijuts Surendranath Banerji, Aswini Kumar Dutta, Krishna Kumar Page 387 Mitra, are not to be altogether gagged, but their hands are to be bound. "If he diverts his students' minds to political agitation," as Srijut Surendranath has done for decades, "if he encourages them to attend political meetings or personally" ...
... n. Mature Deliberation That the movement is from God has been apparent in its history. Our contemporary does not believe that God created and leads the movement, he thinks that Srijut Surendranath Banerji created it and leads it. Only so can we explain the extraordinary statement, "every step that has been taken in construction has been preceded by mature deliberation". Is this so? Was the Swadeshi... purposes. Our contemporary does not expressly deny God's existence or His omnipotence or His providence, and if he accepts them, he is debarred from insisting that God cannot save India without Sj. Surendranath Banerji or Sj. Aswini Kumar Dutta, that He is unable to remove them and find other instruments or that their deportation or disappearance will defer the fulfilment of His purposes to future centuries ...
... the spirit of the times and "work together unitedly" in a line of action which we believe to be ruinous to the country. The demand has been made quite nakedly by enthusiastic adherents of Babu Surendranath Banerji that we should all follow the leaders blindly even when we disapprove of what they think, say and do. A more presumptuous demand or one more destructive of all political morality and honesty... Bombay Moderates would confine our politics within those holy limits. Pundit Madan Mohan and the United Provinces Moderates are willing to add a moderate and inoffensive spice of self-help, Babu Surendranath and the Bengal Moderates will even admit passive resistance within narrow limits and for a special and temporary purpose. But the difference of all from the new party remains. Where there are ...
... their sound no less than their unsound aspects: and it will be to our convenience to have ready some rough formulae by which we may handle the subject in an intelligible way. To this problem Mr. Surendranath Banerji, a man who with all his striking merits, has never evinced any power of calm and serious thought, proffers a very grandiloquent and heart-stirring solution. "We rely" he has said "on the li... up arms against a sea of eloquence. I would rather admit at once the grain of sound fact at the core of all this than strip off the costly integuments with which Mr. Banerji's elaborate Fancy chooses to invest it. But when Mr. Banerji's words no longer reverberate in your ears, you may have leisure to listen to a quieter, more serious voice, now unhappily hushed in the grave,—the voice of Matthew Arnold... and brave, the British House of Commons" and at this inspiriting discharge of oratory there was, we are told, nor do we wonder at it—a responding volley of loud and protracted applause. Now when Mr. Banerji chooses to lash himself into an oratorical frenzy and stir us with his sounding rhetoric, it is really impracticable for anything human to stand up and oppose him: and though I may hereafter tone down ...
... with me and he had a pistol. He said to me, 'I have a pistol with me. Shall I shoot Suren Banerji?' I said, 'For heaven's sake, don't do that.'" "But why did he want to shoot him?" queried Dr. Manilal. "He must have got very excited. At any rate there was a pistol, there was Satyen and there was Banerji." Here is Nevinson to take up the tale. "By noon the Pan-dal was again full to overflowing... President-Elect in procession. Tilak received no reply. Even a reminder to the Chairman that "Mr. Tilak requests a reply to his note," went unanswered. Several speakers spoke, including Surendranath and Motilal Nehru. "Everyone went delicately, moving on a crust of ashes," describes Nevinson picturesquely. "In inaudible words Mr. Malvi proposed that Dr. [Rash Behari] Ghose Page 419 ...
... other unity is only possible if the whole nation is inspired by one spirit and one idea. The Bengalee thinks there is substantially such an unity between, say, Sir Pherozshah Mehta, Srijut Surendranath Banerji and Srijut Bipin Chandra Pal; but we have our doubts. Surendra wants Colonial Self-government, Pherozshah would be hugely pleased with something infinitely less; Bipin Chandra wants absolute ...
... in the Times . Nervous Anglo-India Time was when Srijut Surendranath Banerji was held by nervous Anglo-India to be the crowned King of an insurgent Bengal, a very pestilent fellow flooding the country with sedition and rebellion. The whirligig of Time brings round with it strange revenges and at this moment Srijut Surendranath is returning to India acclaimed by English Conservatives as a pillar... pillar of the British Empire, India's representative with a mighty organisation behind him pledged to loyalty, co-operation and the support of Morleyan reform. After Surendranath, Srijut Bipin Chandra Pal, reputed editor of Bande Mataram and author of the great Madras speeches, loomed as the arch-plotter of revolution and the chief danger to the Empire. The same Bipin Chandra is now a peaceful and ...
... good number of its revolutionaries, including Mahakavi Bharati who had translated Bankim's song 'Bande Mataram' into Tamil. Page 409 H. W. Nevinson had met Sri Aurobindo and S. N. Banerji in Calcutta, and had travelled to Surat with the Moderate Party. He had been held in wonder by the magnificence of Surendra nath's phrases and continuity of expression, but found the theme of his... President of the 23 rd Congress. The Moderates opposed this, and chose instead Dr. Rashbehari Ghose, a lawyer from Calcutta. His name was duly proposed, and Lajpat Rai withdrew his. But when Surendranath rose to second the motion, and before he could utter a full sentence, tumult burst. "Waving their arms, their scarves, their sticks, and umbrellas, a solid mass of delegates and spectators on the... 415 'Remember Nagpur!' they cried; 'Remember Midnapur!' ... White turbans from Madras joined them. The whole ten thousand were on their feet, shouting for order, shouting for tumult." Surendranath tried again and again to speak, again and again he was shouted down with cries of 'Shame, shame !Traitor I' The Congress broke up without transacting any business. "Wild defence was met by ...
... which exclude courage, manliness, generosity, justice and patriotism from their moral practice. The Benerji Vigilance Committees The novel departure initiated by the fertile mind of Srijut Surendranath Banerji at Barrackpur in the creation of Vigilance Committees to check the nocturnal lovers of bomb and bullet practice on the E.B.S.R. has created great interest and amusement among his countrymen... shall all therefore be grateful to our old man eloquent, if he can ensure our common safety. But for ourselves, we do not see how he can effect his laudable object. It would be possible for Srijut Surendranath and the other estimable burgesses of Barrackpur to patrol the railway at night, but the weather is still cold, sleep is pleasant, bullets and cocoanuts perilous missiles, and, if anything happens ...
... country since the inauguration of a new repressive policy by the bureaucracy, a silence broken only by Coconada riots on one side and talk of a special Congress session on the other. Srijut Surendranath Banerji has gone to Simultala to think over the situation and other leaders are thinking over it wherever they happen to find themselves. The only gentleman in authority who has come forward publicly ...
... alleged intention of the Bill? It is only the character of the crime that has to be defined and, if the authorities relying on a Mazarul Haq or a Rakhal Laha frame a charge say against Srijut Surendranath Banerji of waging war or abetting or conspiring to wage war or financing unlawful assemblies and incontinently deport him, would the Liberal conscience be satisfied? Or would it be possible for the ...
... are extremely proper, sober and legal, those of the new party are outside the bounds of the law. In what respect, pray? We advocate boycott and picketing, but that is a gospel of which Babu Surendranath Banerji has constituted himself in the past the chief panda . We advocate abstention from Legislative Councils and other Government bodies, but so do the old leaders strongly recommend it—to East Bengal ...
... England, would not be tolerated by the more self-disciplined Indian people. As for really serious disturbance the worst things of that kind which have happened in India occurred at Surat when Sj. Surendranath Banerji was refused a hearing and on the next day when Mr. Tilak was threatened on the platform by the sticks and chairs of Surat loyalists and the Mahratta delegates charged and after a free fight ...
... to their district but by the national leaders in Calcutta to every district, town and village whether in West, East or North Bengal & in order to constitute the Barisal committees, let Babu Surendranath Banerji go down in person aided by Mr. A. Chowdhury & Babu Bipin Chundra Pal, who, if summoned by Mr. Fuller or any Government official, shall refuse to have any dealings with them, until the former ...
... British government that the articles abounded. "When I began the paper," Sri Aurobindo told a politician disciple in 1926, "I started attacking the big heads of the Moderate Party —among them Surendranath Banerji. And you will wonder, Bepin Pal wrote to me that I was unnecessarily creating trouble by writing them. Of course, I went on writing my articles without listening to what he said. I saw how little... elevated Nationalism to another, higher level. Nationalism was the new religion. Before closing the chapter we give a little extract from an assessment of the journal's impact made by J. L. Banerji. "The Bande Mataram leaped into popular favour almost in a day; and soon achieved for itself a remarkable position in the field of Indian journalism. The vigour and energy of its style, the trenchant ...
... The only remedy is the frank acceptance of the principle of democratic representation. At Surat when the Bengali delegates were electing their representatives on the Subjects Committee, Srijut Surendranath Banerji let fall a remarkable expression of sentiment which explains the difficulty felt by the leaders in frankly accepting the principle of district or divisional election which can alone ensure that ...
... therefore somewhat different from those in Bengal and the gulf between the two parties wider both in opinion and in spirit. In Bombay or Nagpur it would be perfectly impossible for a man like Sj. Surendranath Banerji to be a leader of the Moderates; he would be looked on with suspicion, continually checked, snubbed, thrust into the shadow and eventually forced out of the camp. The struggle over the P ...
... es. They, like Sri Aurobindo, kept the secret movement separate from the public movement; yet they considered the one complementary to the other. Before the open session of the Congress, Surendranath Banerji, the Moderate leader of Bengal, tried to convene a meeting of all the Bengal delegates to arrive at a unanimous decision. He prepared a draft on behalf of the Moderates of Bengal containing... securing this support was not insignificant. To the main resolution demanding Swaraj others were added: viz., Swadeshi, Boycott and National Education. Sir Phirozshah Mehta, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Surendranath Banerjee – the leaders of the Moderate school of politics – were opposed to the resolution. Dadabhai, the president, was undecided in the beginning. But when he found that there was a strong support... resolution through the Reception Committee, proposed to bring it before the open session. Both the parties decided to test their strength on the proposal for the Presidentship of the Congress. Surendranath proposed Dr. Rash Behari Ghose and Tilak stood up for Lajpatrai. There was an effort to prevent Tilak from addressing the house. It was a signal for pandemonium. Chairs were hurled all about and ...
... influence of the small secret Junta of influential men who lead it, not by any settled convictions or intelligent policy. The personalities of Mr. Gokhale and Sir Pherozshah Mehta in Bombay, of Sj. Surendranath Banerji and Sj. Bhupendranath Bose in Bengal, of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in the United Provinces, of Mr. Krishnaswamy Aiyar in Madras constitute Moderatism in their respective provinces. What these ...
... our acquaintances. Maharaja Suryakanta Acharya of Mymensingh was one of the vice-presidents. Then there were Subodh Chandra Mullick, Bepin Chandra Pal, Page 323 P. Mitter, Surendranath Banerji, Gaganendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Chittaranjan Das, Aravindo Ghose, Satish Chandra Mukherji, A. Rasul, Aswini Kumar Dutt, Radha Kumud Mukherji, etc. And Dr. Nilratan Sarkar, that ...
... paralysing exercise of an irresponsible and unlimited authority. This has been universally recognized in Bengal. Executive authority was defied by all Bengal when its representatives, with Babu Surendranath Banerji at their head, escorted their President through the streets of Barisal with the forbidden cry of "Bande Mataram." If the dispersal of the Conference was not resisted, it was not from respect ...
... bitter complaint of the Moderates was that people were listening to young and inexperienced leaders – like Sri Aurobindo – and turning a deaf ear to the old and tried ones. Around this time, Surendranath Banerji called a private meeting on behalf of the Moderates of Bengal, to which he invited ¹ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin , pp. 61-66. Page 126 Sri Aurobindo and other prominent... Nationalists of Bengal in order to present a united front at a congress to be held at Benares. Thus the Moderates wanted to remain with the Nationalists in Bengal. This was due to the fact that Surendranath Banerji was very anxious to be the leader of united Bengal in Indian politics. This could only happen if the Moderates voted for the Nationalists and sent them as delegates! But the Nationalists would... thrashing, but that today the iron hand had turned to gold! Michhari Babu agreed with him, saying "Yes, you are right. Sri Aurobindo's speech has produced an immediate result."² When Panch Koti Banerji, editor of the Hitavadi , read Sri Aurobindo's speech, he told Amar Chatterji that Sri Aurobindo did wrong to speak about his spiritual experiences. Panch Koti quoted a line of scripture to support ...
... the laws of Nature would be sadly contravened and it is better to inflict loss on individuals than to upset a law of Nature. Soham Gita Every Bengali is familiar with the name of Shyamakanta Banerji the famous athlete and tiger-tamer but it may not be known to all that after leaving the worldly life and turning to the life of the ascetic, this pioneer of the cult of physical strength and courage... denounced by the majority as allies of the enemies of English interests. Even now that is increasingly the attitude of the public towards Mr. Mackarness and his sup-porters and we do not think Sj. Surendranath's eloquence has changed matters. Already the most prominent critics of Lord Morley and his policy of repression have received intimation from their constituents of their serious displeasure and are ...
... for its first twenty-one years. On the other side, the Indian leaders themselves were feeling the Page 27 need to create a national unity as a basis for national progress. Surendranath Banerji's 'Indian Association' (1876), and the holding of the first All-India National Conference in Calcutta in 1883, were in a way precursors of the Indian National Congress. We must, however, point ...
... anonymously in the editorial columns of the Bande Mataram : Bipin Chandra Pal, Sri Aurobindo, Hemendra Prasad Ghose, Shyam Sunder Chakravarti, Bijoy C. Chatterjee, Satish Mukherji and Upendranath Banerji. The following is known about the connection of these men with the paper: Bipin Chandra Pal . The founder of Bande Mataram , Pal was its editor-in-chief between 6 August and 12 ... the Dawn , Satish Chandra had little time to write for the Bande Mataram . According to Hemendra Prasad, he contributed a few articles, which were invariably accepted. Upendranath Banerji . A member of Barindra Kumar Ghose's revolutionary group, Upendranath joined the Bande Mataram around December 1906. He also wrote for the Bengali paper Yugantar . From mid-1907 he was kept busy... include: Bagchee, Moni. Letter dated 23 November 1971, listing a few articles known by him to be by his father-in-law Shyam Sunder Chakravarti. Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives. Banerji, Upendranath. List of articles said by him to be by Sri Aurobindo, compiled in 1939. Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives. Deb, Suresh Chandra. 1949. "When He Was a Political Leader", Calcutta ...
... people gave their support. In the Indian Army, a general revolt was also a possibility.' Around 1900 Sri Aurobindo made his first move when he sent a young Bengali soldier of the Baroda Army, Jatin Banerji, as his lieutenant to Bengal with a programme for preparation and action which he thought might need thirty years for fruition. Dinen Roy has given us a vivid picture of how this step was taken... construed to mean that a temple for political sannyasins was to be built like the Bhavani Mandir of Bankim Chandra's Ananda Math. After training Barin, Sri Aurobindo sent him to Bengal to help Jatin Banerji in the organisation of revolutionary work and himself followed up with a visit in 1902 during the college vacation. He went to Midnapur for the first time accompanied by Jatin and Barin. There he met... expression of this new political awareness. But the political awakening, when it came, was slow and uncertain in its beginnings. The first generation of Congress leaders, among them M.G. Ranade, Surendranath Banerjee, Pherozeshah Mehta, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, were sincere patriots but they were men of prudence and moderation, who sought to cooperate with the British, not to confront them. Their group ...
... against the proposed partition of Bengal. Wrote the booklet 'No Compromise' of which thousands of copies were secretly printed and circulated by the revolutionary workers. Surendranath Banerji's admiration for its unparalleled language and arguments. 1905 Officiated as Principal of Baroda College.Barindra went to Kaimur Hill near Rhotasgarh to select a site for ...
... Naini Tal, a resort in what is now Uttaranchal, after his marriage to Mrinalini Bose in April 1901. The Banerji mentioned in the last paragraph was probably Jatindranath Banerji (c. 1877 - 1930), a young Bengali who had come to Baroda to obtain military training. In 1902 Sri Aurobindo sent Banerji to Calcutta to begin revolutionary work in Bengal. To an Officer of the Baroda State. 14 February... there was much internal conflict in the office of the newspaper. Hemendra Prasad copied the note out in his diary, from which it is reproduced. To Aswinicoomar Banerji . Sri Aurobindo wrote these letters to Aswinicoomar Banerji (1866 - 1945), a barrister, labour leader and nationalist politician, shortly before Sri Aurobindo was arrested for sedition in August 1907. [1] This letter is dated... who then was living with him in Baroda. Barin had just returned from Bengal, where for two or three years he had been helping to organise the revolutionary secret society that Sri Aurobindo, Jatin Banerji and others had set up. The Maharaja agreed to give Barin a job, but Barin went back to Bengal before he could begin work. A Letter of Recommendation. 28 February 1906 . Written just before ...
... 29 His first concrete political act was to send Jatindranath Banerji to Bengal, probably towards the end of 1901, as his lieutenant. ‘The idea was to establish secretly or, as far as visible action could be taken, under various pretexts and covers, revolutionary propaganda and recruiting throughout Bengal.’ 30 Jatin Banerji was a young revolutionary idealist who wanted to train himself and... ’ 32 The two struck up a friendship that would last for the rest of her short life. Having initiated Barin into the Secret Society, Aurobindo sent him to Calcutta to collaborate with Jatin Banerji. Unfortunately, the characters of ‘Military Jatin,’ considered to be a martinet, and Barin, ever romantic and shifting, did not agree and things took a turn for the worse. Even Aurobindo’s mediation... while pledging their lives, total dedication and secrecy to the society. P. Mitra would become president of a council of five consisting of Aurobindo, C.R. Das, whom Aurobindo had known in England, Surendranath Tagore of the famous Tagore family, and Sister Nivedita. Sister Nivedita (1867-1911) was the foremost Western disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She was born Margaret Noble in northern Ireland. In ...
... months and that they had a very curious feature in that they were all covered with moss. I was also told that among those who were then on the spot there was the rationalist stalwart Upendra Nath Banerji who had at first pooh-poohed the black-magic story and girded up his loins to unearth the miscreants who were responsible for it all. But even he had to confess himself beaten in the end as he could... till 1905. Therefore Girija's contention in the previous issues that Priya Mitra drifted away from Sri Aurobindo on account of Sri Aurobindo's partiality towards Barin in the quarrel between Jatin Banerji and Barin is not borne out by facts. 35. Another instance of wrong inference based on false evidence is furnished by several people ascribing the authorship of the Bhawani Mandir scheme to different... I had occasion to meet Mr. Dutt on this point and I can say on his authority that Hemchandra Kanungo's report is far from accurate. 5. His account of the differences between Barin and Jatin Banerji is not reliable. Firstly, he could not have known everything because he had been only recently recruited at Midnapore and the whole incident took place at Calcutta. The work was in a very early stage ...
... 203-5, 213, 241, 281 Ruud Lohman 803-4 Sahana Devi (Gupta) 255, 262ff. 281, 285, 287, 289, 296-7, 335, 349, 356, 359, 364, 371, 691 Salvador de Madariaga 534 Samir Kant Gupta 12 Sanat Banerji 241 Sanyal, Dr see Prabhat Sanyal Satprem 719, 753, 772-4, 777, 794, 808-9, 816 Satwalekar, Sripad Damodar 683 Satyakama Jabala 730 Satyendra Thakore 276-7, 400, 490 Saurin Bose 153 Schuman... Kanta 86, 196-7, 217-8, 234, 822-3 Okhawa 174-5 Pavitra 227-9 Purani 211, 235 Rishabhchand 278 Romen 365, 708 Sahana 263, 281, 285, 287, 289, 364-5 Shanti 271-3 Subbarao 222 Sunil 681-2 Surendranath 417 Suvrata 418 Udar 279 Vasudha 266, 287 Vijayatunga 461 3. The Mother on creating one's own world 5 (cf 642) learning an art 6-7 love mundane and divine 7, 315-7, 378, 475-7 ...
... in the partition of India forty years later. Bengal responded to its partition by massive and unanimous protests, in which many personalities took part, such as Rabindranath Tagore, Surendranath Banerji, Bepin Chandra Pal, Ashwini Kumar Dutt The ideal of Swadeshi, which called for the boycott of British goods, spread widely. In March, 1906, Barin Ghose with a few others started the... y groups in Maharashtra and Bengal, and tried to coordinate their action with the help of his brother, Barindra Kumar Ghose, and Jatindranath Banerjee; at Sri Aurobindo's initiative, P. Mitter, Surendranath Tagore, Chittaranjan Das and Sister Nivedita soon formed the first secret council for revolutionary activities in Bengal. Although an effective coordination between the various groups remained elusive ...
... Baladeva (Balarama, Rama, Sankarshana), 242, 578, 579, 580, 582 Balkrishnan Nayar, T., 239 Balarāma, see Baladeva Balkh 528, 529 Banākataka 469 Bandhu-varman, 497 Banerji, R. D., 42 Barbarikon/Barbarie, 173 Barhadrathas, 5, 9, 10, 69, 78, 106, 224 Bartholomae, 281 Barua, B. M., 144, 176, 180, 208, 211, 241, 242, 246, 247, 248, 273, 274, 279, 283, 285... I Page 607 In The Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1900 List of Inscriptions of Northern India. Bhandarkar, D. R. and Majumdar, Surendranath, The Inscriptions of Aśoka (1920) Bhandarkar, R. G., Early History of the Dekkan (Calcutta, 1926) Bhāratiya-Prāchina-Lipo-Māla Bivar, A. D. A., In Journal... Life of the Buddha and the Early History of His Order (Trubner & Co., London, 1884) Roux, Georges, Ancient Iraq (Pelican, Harmondsworth, 1966) Page 616 Roy, Surendranath, In Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 1939 Sachau, E. C, tr., Albērūnī's India (London, 1914) Saletore, B. A., In Indian Culture, I, 1934-35 ...
... Bengali race by driving a wedge between the Hindus and the Muslims. Sir Bampfylde Fuller, who was appointed the first Lt. Governor of East Bengal and Assam, declared, according to Surendra Nath Banerji, "half in jest and half in seriousness, to the amazement of all sober-minded men that he had two wives, Hindu and Mohammedan, but that the Mohammedan was the favourite wife." Nevinson confirms Curzon's... also founded the Dawn Society, and was running the English organ. Dawn, in Calcutta. Almost all the men of light and leading in the city, including Rabindranath Tagore, Hiren Datta, Sir Gooroodas Banerji, Bepin Chandra Pal etc., were among the patrons and supporters of the college, and Benoy Kumar Sarkar and Radha Kumud Mookherji among its young professors. But the new movement for education lacked... eyes of "one who gazes at futurity", as Nevinson has expressed his observation. She promised him unreserved support in his political work, which was then being carried on in secret through Jatin Banerji, Barin, and others in Bengal; for, being in the State service, he was not publicly taking part in the politics. And when Sri Aurobindo left the State service and threw himself into politics, none ...
... who are responsible but the wave of old life consciousness which came in ____________________ 1. A journal published by Barin. 2. Sister Maya and brother-in-law Bhavashankar, son of Surendranath Banerji, the well-known Moderate Congress leader. Page 86 their wake that has thrown up old associations and stirred these reactions from their subconscient quiescence. I do not at ...
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